interesting hearing about this novel from someone who formally worked inside prisons before. And apparently some aspects of prisons is universal. I loved this book, great story. James Clavell actually was, at one time, imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
I recently came across this book called A Hero Born by Jin Yong. I think you may like it. The series is big in China, and it has just recently been translated into English.
Great book, I've read it in both Polish and English. I've first read the book in Polish when I was a young adult and then quite recently in English, with additional pages about women that was not included in the Polish version. I have to say those additional pages about partners of POWs left me with mixed feelings. For one, it was nice to finally "meet" the people mentioned by the POWs but that came at the cost of losing the feeling of immersion. It might be because I read it initially without those pages but most of them felt quite out of place, like they didn't quite belong with the rest of the book.
Love your reviews. James Clavell was great. Did you do a review of W. Michael Gear's Requiem for the Conqueror? I thought you did but can't find it now. King Rat was published before TaiPan. Darryl
Sorry to say but reading so fast (like 1 book every couple of days) doesn't make any sense even being a book lover. I mean one can't immerse himself into the plots and characters without spending atleast some days if not week into that book. Reading hundreds and thousands of book makes one crazy and confused on various stories overlapping like cob-web. Still being your subscriber, I like your reviews. Keep going BLEED!
The book is semi-autobiographical if not more than that I believe. The main American Character is based on a real person and from what he has said. A fantastic read.
Great book and also a great film 👍 Shogun got me into his work, but "King Rat" is a shorter (by comparison to his other work) but a cracking book none the less
